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Hon. Gloria vs. Court of Appeals (CA)

HON. RICARDO T. GLORIA, in his capacity as Secretary of the Department of Education, Culture, and Sports, petitioner, vs. COURT OF APPEALS, AMPARO A. ABAD, VIRGILIA M. BANDIGAS, ELIZABETH A. SOMEBANG and NICANOR MARGALLO, respondents.

G.R. No. 131012 | 1999-04-21

D E C I S I O N

MENDOZA, J.:

This case arose out of the unfortunate strikes and walk-outs staged by public school teachers on different dates in September and October 1990. The illegality of the strikes was declared in our 1991 decision in Manila Public School Teachers Association v. Laguio, Jr.,[1] but many incidents of those strikes are still to be resolved. At issue in this case is the right to back salaries of teachers who were either dismissed or suspended because they did not report for work but who were eventually ordered reinstated because they had not been shown to have taken part in the strike, although reprimanded for being absent...